Women in Love: Introduction by David Ellis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (Hardcover)

Women in Love: Introduction by David Ellis (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) By D. H. Lawrence, David Ellis (Introduction by) Cover Image
By D. H. Lawrence, David Ellis (Introduction by)
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Widely considered the best novel from one of the best writers of the twentieth century, this "astonishing work" (The New York Review of Books) continues where The Rainbow left off, revealing a powerful portrayal of two couples dynamically engaged in a struggle with themselves, with each other, and with life’s intractable limitations.         

The sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, whom we first met in Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow, here become involved with two close friends: Rupert, an intellectual school inspector; and Gerald, the wealthy heir to a mine owner. The turbulent relationships that result—chronicled with an emotional and sexual frankness that provoked controversy on the book’s publication in 1920—take the characters from an English landscape of coal mines and sooty factories to the snowy heights of the Alps, where tragedy strikes.

Women in Love was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense of background danger, of lurking catastrophe, continually informs its drama. Lawrence was a powerful, prophetic writer, but in addition he brought such delicacy to his treatment of the human and natural worlds that E. M. Forster’s claim that he was the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation does him too little justice rather than too much.

About the Author


David Ellis is the author of Lawrence's Non-Fiction: Art, Thought and Genre and Wordsworth, Freud and the Spots of Time. He has been commissioned to write Volume HI of the New Cambridge biography of Lawrence.

Praise For…


“His masterpiece.... An astonishing work that moves on several levels.... Lawrence compels us to admit that we live less finely than we should, whatever we are.” —The New York Review of Books
Product Details
ISBN: 9780679409953
ISBN-10: 0679409955
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publication Date: June 2nd, 1992
Pages: 475
Language: English
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series